but don't piss up my leg and tell me it's raining.
Nutty is Judge Judy!
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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Aims - Mar 25, 2008 9:41:10 am PDT #4558 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
DavidS - Mar 25, 2008 9:51:22 am PDT #4559 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The problem with Michael Bay movies overall, for me, is that he appears intent on positing the human species as too dumb to live. Blow stuff up all you like, bub, but don't piss up my leg and tell me it's raining.
Please, feel free to make my points for me. Not an artist.
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2008 9:54:44 am PDT #4560 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hec, how do you define artist? I agree with Nutty's suspicion of the romantic and tortured definition making the whole point.
Whatever Michael Bay is, I think there's a lot more legwork to be done in terms of assessing the frequency of mental illness in the arts and outside them.
Jesse - Mar 25, 2008 9:57:41 am PDT #4561 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I want to do one of those magazine pages with the two axes -- artistic and crazy. So Van Gogh gets to be way over in the artistic/crazy area, say -5 on both axes, and I'd put Michael Bay at -1 on artistic, +2 on crazy, or so.
Does that make any sense without a picture?
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2008 10:00:58 am PDT #4562 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd put Michael Bay at -1 on artistic
Where would you put your UPS guy? Margaret Thatcher? Your high school math teacher?
Aims - Mar 25, 2008 10:01:25 am PDT #4563 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It does once I figured you didn't mean axes chop chop but axes lines.
lisah - Mar 25, 2008 10:01:55 am PDT #4564 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
It does once I figured you didn't mean axes chop chop but axes lines.
Bwah! I had this same issue.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 25, 2008 10:02:02 am PDT #4565 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Is it like the crazy/beautiful one on HIMYM?
Tom Scola - Mar 25, 2008 10:02:47 am PDT #4566 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I have the suspicion that "famous" correlates with "crazy" more than "artistic" does.
e.g.: [link]
Celebrities have more narcissistic personality traits than the general population, and people with narcissistic tendencies seem to be attracted to the entertainment industry rather than the industry creating narcissists, according to a groundbreaking study
Jesse - Mar 25, 2008 10:03:30 am PDT #4567 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Where would you put your UPS guy? Margaret Thatcher? Your high school math teacher?
+5, +5, +1 -- in my head "more artistic" is on the left side of the page. Not sure why. I do love my UPS guy. And my favorite hs math teacher was more artistic than you might think.